Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The reading for today titled God Fights for Us was written by Marvin Williams.

A Colorado mother proved she would stop at nothing to protect her child.

Her five-year-old son was playing outside when she heard him screaming. She rushed outside and to her horror, she saw that

her son had an unexpected playmate, a mountain lion. The large cat was on top of her son with his

head in its mouth. The mother summoned her inner mama grisly to fight off the lion

and pry open its jaws to rescue her son. This mother's heroic actions remind us of how

motherhood is used in scripture to illustrate God's tenacious love and protection for his children.

God tenderly cared for and comforted his

people as a mother eagle cares for her young. Also, like a mother who could never forget a nursing

child with whom she had built an inseparable bond, God would never forget his people nor forever

withhold compassion from them. Finally, like a mother bird,

offering protective cover under her wings for baby birds, God would cover his people with his feathers

and his faithfulness would be their shield and rampart. Sometimes we feel alone, forgotten,

and trapped in the grips of all kinds of spiritual predators.

May God help us remember that he compassionately cares, comforts, and fights for us.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is taken from Psalm 91, verses 1 through 10.

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.

Surely he will save you from the fowler snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings,

you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the

terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

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